Each worth $15,000, Future Conservationist Awards are granted to teams of early-career conservationists (i.e., team members have less than five years of professional conservation experience) who are conducting high-priority projects focused on protecting species listed as Data Deficient, Vulnerable, Endangered or Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List. Projects must take place in an eligible country, be led (or co-led) by a national of one of these countries, involve at least three people and last between three to 12 months.
Conservation
Each worth $15,000, Future Conservationist Awards are granted to teams of early-career conservationists (i.e., team members have less than five years of professional conservation experience) who are conducting high-priority projects focused on protecting species listed as Data Deficient, Vulnerable, Endangered or Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List. Projects must take place in an eligible country, be led (or co-led) by a national of one of these countries, involve at least three people and last between three to 12 months.
CLP offers support to early-career conservationists living and working in low- and middle-income
countries in Africa, Asia, the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, Eastern and South-eastern
Europe and the Middle East. The project must take place in one of the eligible countries. See below
for ineligible countries: High income countries and countries with whom trade or other dealings are
prohibited under any sanctions or restricted party regime imposed by the UN, EU, UK and USA. High-
income Caribbean and Pacific Island economies that are eligible.
low- and middle-income countries in Africa, Asia, the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, Eastern and South-eastern
Europe and the Middle East
Team:
• CLP Awards are for team-based conservation projects – each team must have at least
three people.
• 50% or more of the team members must be nationals of the country where the project
is taking place.
• The team leader must be a national of the country where the project is taking place. Co-
leadership with a non-national will be considered, subject to clear justification.
• All team members must be early-career conservationists with no more than five years of
work experience in the conservation sector. ‘Work experience’ does not include research
for a university degree. Individuals who have more than five years of work experience in
the conservation sector are not eligible for CLP support and should not apply.
• No team member can be a part- or full-time paid employee or contractor with a CLP
partner organisation, including BirdLife International, Fauna & Flora and the Wildlife
Conservation Society, at any time from project development through to implementation.
• Any team member volunteering at a CLP partner organisation at the time of application
and/or project implementation MUST be declared in the application. They also need to
explain how the CLP proposal differs from the partner organisation’s work.
• Applicants can participate in only one CLP project at a time and in no more than three
Future Conservationist Award projects in total, serving as team leader for no more than
one Future Conservationist project